The Dysfunctional Media Nominations: Sexist Rescue Missions, Pets Make You MAGA, and a Virile Trump Photo

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By Brad Slager

It is time for a new round of nominations of nefarious news nonsense! In recognizing the unprofessional press, journalistic sloth, and the deserved media mockery, we nominate these efforts in a variety of categories for end-of-the-year honors. To commemorate the legacy of muckraking reporting and shoe-leather investigation, we have created The Golden Remington Awards.  

Our trophy honors the olden days when hard-scrabble hacks committed actual journalism and hammered out dispatches on those hefty word-smith devices. We compile some of the most fractured examples of journalism, nominating them for the un-coveted dishonor of our un-distinguished trophy, The Remmys. 

Here is the latest batch of nominees for consideration, gathered for the end of the calendar when we will be handing out trophies to the most un-impressive acts of journalism throughout the past year! 

Distinguished Explanatory Reporting

  • Lawrence O’Donnell - MS NOW

Following the dramatic and heroic rescue of the fallen pilot who went down over Iranian airspace — where we committed a brazen mission inside the hostile nation, O’Donnell got to the bottom of what the Real concern must be.

Commenting on Secretary Pete Hegseth’s news conference following the rescue mission, Larry pointed out the severe social inequity that was committed: Hegseth dared to say, “We leave no man behind!”

Small matter, but we feel the need to deliver some factual pertinent to the matter, for Mr. O’Donnell; petty sexist charges aside, the pilot who was recovered just so happens to have been a MAN.

Distinguished Breaking News

  • Kate Santaliz -Axios

There was an impressive SCOOP delivered by Ms. Santaliz, according to her. According to most readers, however, this was rather lacking. She rushed into publication her report on Rep. Chuck Edwards (NC-11) being placed under a House ethics investigation. That’s it. That is the entirety of her big SCOOP.

As for why? Can’t say. Her “report is filled with all manner of non-content regarding this development.

  • “unspecified allegations / a lawyer from the committee authorized ethics staff to investigate / No allegations were specified / The House Ethics Committee declined to comment”

Oh…kay then. So, something may have happened, and they are looking into…something, we guess? As for who is informing Kate on the matter, you also have to guess at that.

  • Axios has learned from three sources familiar with the probe.

Distinguished National Reporting

  • Theodore Schleifer, Kate Conger - New York Times

The press corps in this nation is nothing if not a wad of contradictions. We get lectured on how billionaires are inherently evil, and yet they occupy themselves with the arcane details of these same people we are supposed to disregard.

As a sterling example, this New York Times entry gives us specifics on the private life of Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Apparently, he has taken on a girlfriend who resides on the Right, and this has led (GASP!) to his being caught in a photograph wearing a red MAGA hat!

Distinguished Feature Writing

  • Daniel Engber - The Atlantic

This tendency of journalists to see arcane cultural activity and ascribe some form of nefarious characteristic to it, and then use that to blame Trump for such, is getting beyond desperate. Working out was said to be the mark of GOP Trumpism. If you wear a Hawaiian shirt, you are likely a Proud Boy-influenced white supremacist. The list goes on.

And at The Atlantic, they added to it. Now, the mere fact that you own a pet and care about he/she/they is a sign of MAGA fealty.

The best is when claiming this is an indicator from the administration. They say this oblivious that President Trump has no dog or cat of his own.

Distinguished Photojournalism 

  • Win McNamee - Getty Images

We are not clear if this was an intentional attempt to ridicule the president by a photographer or simply a result of the hectic nature of the press gaggle.

But we are sure there is a good chance the administration will use this shot as a positive PR display.

The Silver Ricecake Platter, for Content-free Reporting (Sponsored by Quaker)

  • Kathleen Perricone - Entertainment Weekly

We have to wonder just who it is that harbors any interest in the actress who played the neighbor friend, Kimmy Gibbler, on the TV show “Full House.”

Beyond that curiosity, it is an absolute mystery why any reporter, of any caliber, thought ANYone would care that Andrea Barber missed seeing O.J. Simpson’s white Ford Bronco scene over 30 years ago, because she had been woozy from being gassed for a tooth procedure.

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